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Jonathan Fell, Ash Park Capital - People Always Overestimate The Extent To Which Tobacco Is A Dying Business | #375

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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The Future of the Tobacco Industry

The tobacco industry has outperformed historically. It loads very heavily on two quant factors I love, one of which is essentially quality, you know, return on capital. The big one is total assets, meaning said differently, we think a lot about companies that are returning cash to shareholders through dividends and net buybacks. And so tobacco companies have historically had both of those and on top of it now, they also have a third, which is strikingly lower valuations.

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